[Klug-general] Mandriva 2005 updates

[Dan Attwood]

The only other thing I can think of is that the scssi scanner drivers
are loaded into the kernel. Inorder to get round this you need to do a
modprobe or even better a kernel recompile to make sure the drivers
are loaded. When I used Mandrive I used to allways recompile the
kernel as I found it missed several key things (like preemtive desktop
and the like)
You'll instructions for both of these in the mandriva forums

dan

On 14/09/06, Michael. E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the comment Dan. My apologies for the delay in responding.
>
> Unfortunately my budget won't stretch to junking a perfectly good
> scanner just because Mandriva can't get it right.
> If anyone can suggest why Mandriva 2006 won't operate a standard Epson
> SCSI scanner when Mandrake 10.2 (in its Mandriva 2005LE guise) does
> quite happily and with the minimum of hassle, I would dearly love to
> know. I have tried RH C4, SUSE, Kubuntu and none work for me as well as
> Mandrake 10.2. I have now managed to find the system upgrades on a
> French ftp site and successfully installed them so my system is as safe
> as it is ever going to be. But those updates will not be added to, they
> are seen as part of a superseded system.
>
> So I am going to hang on with M2005LE until the 2007 version appears,
> probably on next month's Linux Format mag, and try and upgrade the
> system. I did sent a (very) begging email to the Mandriva team pointing
> out my problem and I did get a polite response saying that they would
> pay attention to my suggestion.
>
> I hope 2007 is faster, and of course the updates will keep it safer too.
>
> So ... living in hopes then.
>
> MikeR in Folkestone
>
> Scanners can be a bit of a pain, mine works fine apart from the slide
> scanner function.
>
> I would suggest though that you consider buying a new usb scanner -
> for the sake of C£80 you can then be running the newest version of
> mandriva with all the benefits of a newer kde, newer packages, speed,
> security etc. I can't vouch for 2007 but 2006 was heaps faster than
> 2005LE
>
> Dan
>
> On 11/09/06, Michael. E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > I'm not surprised there were dozens of updates - that source is for
> > Mandriva 2006, and you were running 2005LE, so you are now running a
> > hybrid of 2006 and 2005LE, so some things might not work properly.
> >
> > I suggest you go into MCC and delete all the sources for 2005LE, and
> > then go to http://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/ and get a complete set of
> > urpmi sources for 2006, then from a root terminal do
> >
> > urpmi.update -caf && urpmi --auto-select
> >
> > That will fully upgrade you to 2006.
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Margot
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the advice Margot. It has led me to investigate the console
> > use of urpmi which I was uncertain of previously and now I know a bit
> > more about Linux. All to the good.
> >
> > What I am trying to avoid is upgrading any of my M2005 core features to
> > M2006. For some reason which I am completely unable to fathom, I cannot
> > make 2006 see my SCSI scanner. Mandriva 2005LE is happy to find it and
> > to network it with saned and I don't want to lose that facility.  I
> > actually use Linux in a productive office environment and the scanner is
> > necessary.
> >
> > So a straight upgrade to 2006 is something I'm trying to avoid. What I
> > was hoping to do was to find the upgrade files for 2005 and use those
> > but all the Mandrake/Mandriva ftp sites that I've investigated although
> > admittedly only in UK (WarwickU is horribly slow) and The Netherlands
> > (satisfyingly fast) seem to have withdrawn their 2005 upgrades. In their
> > space is a short readme.txt saying that they have been transferred to
> > the 'old' tree. But they haven't and that is a major disappointment.
> >
> > Why would they want to do that? They have got all the older upgrades
> > back to ver 7 in the old tree except 2005.
> >
> > I think I shall now just wait until 2007 comes along on the cover of
> > Linux Format (should be next month) and try it as an upgrade. If it
> > screws up my scanner access I shall be back to square one. I wish I
> > could work out why the scanner doesn't work, I've tried all the obvious
> > 'permissions problem' in both root and user. sane-find-scanner detects
> > the scanner and says it is at /dev/sg0 but if I then try to use it with
> > scanimage -L or Kooka nothing happens and when I run sane-find-scanner
> > again it isn't there. Baffling.
> >
> > I appreciate the advice - very many thanks.
> >
> > MikeR
> > in Folkestone
> >
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